Too bad many businesses will pay big money for those guys. Consultants. "Team builders". Safety designer. Someone who has studied human behavior can obtain jobs ranging from lame to vital to profitable. Psychology helps market products, creates a better working environment, and determines whether a design might lead to human error that could exacerbate a situation. It's all in the marketing of the skills. And those who have a harder time finding jobs still don't regret the major due to the skills it gave them for other aspects of their lives, particularly in raising children or dealing with a crisis.

And I find that people who resent psychology majors tend to be those who fear taking a good hard look at themselves.

Tin put on the cap and gown and marched in graduation, and after all that, nobody beat a path to his door and offered him lots of money. He had to go on to junior high school, and he's been bitter ever since.

I know a psychologist, a friend of my father, who is very successful, somewhat wealthy, and works very hard. Tinsley, on the other hand, is saying that anyone in the health care industry, especially mental health, is a lazy idiot, and should be ashamed of his work, because social services are evil.

This series so far:

Day one: Insurance is evil.Day two: Demanding change in a flawed system is evil.Day three: Diversifying one's knowledge is evil.Day four: Science, and, therefore, technology is evil.Day five: Social services, and health care are evil.

My guess for day six was that Tinsley would that not killing everyone who is unlike himself is evil. I think that message is implicit in the idea that health care, and social services are evil, so I think I deserve, at least, half credit for that prediction. I could not predict, exactly, what Tinsley would say because I am not a sociopathic retarded lunatic.

Word Verification: Droopy, like Tinsley's kidneys and liver after drinking Wood-Grain alcohol, and the, natural, state of his brain.

I suspect that he's right, but not for the reasons he thinks. The reason he's right is that any college shitty enough to have a3rd-rate journalist who, by the way, happens to be a duck, give the commencement speech at its graduation ceremony probably doesn't have the best record of graduates getting high-paying, quality jobs.

- Perhaps Mallard's total lack of joy in life stems from some problem in his creator's mind. Conservativism has always claimed that nothing could get better than some mythical golden age of the past (before all this gummint interference!!!) but the sheer a-hedonic sad masochistic anger of today's teabaggers really seems pathological.

Perhaps there's a reason Tinshley is saying today that psychology is unproductive. It has not helped him, for which he deserves our compassion.

"... and instead squeaked through a degree in poli sci, but can draw a duck badly and scrawl down whatever Rush Limbaugh was bloviating on today, all while living off right-wing welfare -- well, then the world is your oyster. Oh, wait, forget that -- that job's taken. You're screwed. Where did I leave my scotch?"

HOLY FUCKING SHIT--Brucie actually coming out and ADMITTING that he reads this blog? That's beautiful. Now he has no excuse--he can't even pretend anymore that he's somehow UNAWARE of how horrible his cartoon is. So which is it that allows you to Carry on, Bruce--massive delusions of competence, or deep-seated self-loathing? Or both? I'm just curious.